Shalyn Ferdinand Quotes & Sayings

We mean to say that Symbolism and Decadence - the negative attitude to which is indisputable to everyone except the "participants" - are genetically connected with everything brilliant and sublime created by the "unbound personality" during this period of time, from the Renaissance up to the development of electrical engineering; contrariwise, the border which they cannot cross is laid down where man understood that he was always "bound." The great continent of history, the continent of real deeds, practical needs, and more than all that, of received religion and the established Church - that is whose shore this stinking monster can never crawl into, that is where we are fleeing to from it, that is where man can always save himself. Where the monastery wall rises this surge of the faithless waves of history - no matter how strong it may become and how far it may spread around - will stop and fall back.

("On Symbolists & Decadence") — Vasily Rozanov

My dream job would be a lawyer. I can talk my way out of anything, and I love cross-examining people. I think I'd be a really good lawyer. — Tamara Ecclestone

Manhandling the open here spout on a milk carton so badly that one has to resort to using the illegal side. — Rich Hall

Each man's life is a kind of campaign, and a long and complicated one at that. You have to maintain the character of a soldier, and do each separate act at the bidding of the General. — Epictetus

Our job is not to find the peace or create peace, but to find and eliminate all the obstacles on the way to the peace. — Debasish Mridha

Usability is not everything. If usability engineers designed a nightclub, it would be clean, quiet, brightly lit, with lots of places to sit down, plenty of bartenders, menus written in 18-point sans-serif, and easy-to-find bathrooms. But nobody would be there. They would all be down the street at Coyote Ugly pouring beer on each other. — Joel Spolsky

I think that the church in America today is so obsessed with being practical, relevant, helpful, successful, and perhaps well-liked that it nearly mirrors the world itself. Aside from the packaging, there is nothing that cannot be found in most churches today that could not be satisfied by any number of secular programs and self-help groups. — Michael Horton

Our habits are our friends. Even our bad habits.
Diary of a Country Priest — Georges Bernanos

The best we can do is live our highest right, gracefully as we can, and let the Principle of Coincidence take it from there. Seven — Richard Bach

Your voice is worthwhile. Have faith in it. — John Lasseter

Better never begin than never make an end. — George Herbert

The word 'self' is as great a mystery as the word 'other'. It's just a polarity between two mysteries. — Terence McKenna